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Umbrine
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Also known as Umbrina

Umbrina is a genus of fish from the croaker family Sciaenidae. The genus contains 17 species occurring in tropical and warm temperate waters of the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Western Indian Ocean and the eastern Pacific.

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It sits within the topics Actinopterygii genera, Sciaenidae and Taxa named by Georges Cuvier.

Its subject is documented across 18 Wikipedia language editions.

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  1. PhylumChordata
  2. ClassTeleostei
  3. OrderEupercaria incertae sedis
  4. FamilySciaenidae
Habitatmarine, brackish

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Umbrina is a genus of fish from the croaker family Sciaenidae. The genus contains 17 species occurring in tropical and warm temperate waters of the Atlantic, the Mediterranean, the Western Indian Ocean and the eastern Pacific.

==Taxonomy== Umbrina was first proposed as a genus in 1817 by the French zoologist Georges Cuvier as a monospecific genus with its only species being Sciaena cirrosa. S. cirrosa had been described by Carl Linnaeus in the 10th edition of the Systema Naturae published in 1758 and its type locality was given as the Mediterranean Sea and eastern Atlantic. Some workers have placed this genus in the subfamily Sciaeninae. However, the 5th edition of Fishes of the World does not recognise tribes or subfamilies within the Sciaenidae which it places in the order Acanthuriformes.

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